The spokesman of the Turkish Presidency, Ibrahim Kalin, has criticized on Tuesday one of the cartoons of the French satirical magazine ‘Charlie Hebdo’ in which he ironizes with the strong earthquake that has shaken the southeast of the country and has already left more than 6,200 dead and nearly 30,500 injured: «Drown in your anger».
«Modern barbarians! Savor your anger and hatred,» Kalin reacted on Twitter to an image posted on the same social network by the magazine depicting the destruction left by the earthquake under the caption ‘Earthquake in Turkey, it is not even necessary to send tanks’.
It is not the first time that the magazine’s publications raise controversy Turkey, where criticism of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, have been a constant. In a similar case to now, in 2016, they compared the victims of the earthquake that left nearly 300 dead in Italy to a plate of lasagna.
Frequent are their satires against Mohammed and Islam, to the point that the weekly suffered in 2015 a terrorist attack in its Paris editorial office, when two armed men shouting ‘Allah is great’ killed twelve people and wounded eleven others.
About 6,200 people have been killed by the succession of earthquakes recorded on Monday in southern Turkey, near the border with Syria, according to data provided by the authorities of both countries and the ‘white helmets’ serving in Syrian opposition areas.
President Erdogan has declared on Tuesday a state of emergency for the next three months in up to ten provinces while rescue efforts continue, for which troops from more than fifty countries have arrived.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
